Dyeing of materials made of or containing cellulose derivatives



Patented Nov. 19, 1929 vTED 5;

HENRY DREYFUS, OF LONDON, ENGLAND No Drawing. Application filed March 12, 1927, Serial No. 175,013, and in Great Britain December 14,, 1926.

This invention relates to the dyeing, printing andstencilling of threads, arns, knitted or woven fabrics or other pro ucts made of or containing cellulose acetate or other organic acid esters of cellulose, such for example as cellulose formate, propionate or butyrate, or the product obtained by the treat mentof alkalised cellulose with p-toluene sulthe product known as imthat is to say with azo coloring matters or compounds containing one or more amino groups substituted by means of any aliphatic grouping containing two or more hydroxy groups. Further the invention includes the formation of such coloring matters on the fiber or material by combination of components, one or more of which contain such substituted amino groups.

Such compounds may readily be prepared,- for example by interaction between an amino compound and halohydrin containing at least two hydroxy grou s, such for example as glyceryl chlorhydrlns, chlorbutylene glycol, erythritol dichlorhydrin, manitol monoor cliehlorhydrin and the like, or a carbohydrate such as glucose, lactose, galactose and the like or other aliphatic polyhydroxy aldehydes or ketones or an aliphatic polyhydroxy carboxylic acid, or by treatment of a halogen compound with an aliphatic polyhydroxy amine.- The following examples of dyestufi's for use according to the present invention and of the methods of preparing them are intended to illustrate the invention and not to be in any Way limitative.

Example 1.p-l litraniline is condensed with chlorbutylene glycol, the product reduced, diazotized and coupled with a-naphthylamine. The dyestufi obtained NHa may be diazotized on the fibre and developed, for example with o-dihydroxy propylaminophenol (from glyceryl chlorhydrin and o-aminophenol) x Example 2.Diazotized picramic acid is coupled with dih droxypropylaniline. The dyestufi' has the ormula OsN 0H G ENONH'OHz-CHOH-CE OH N01 v and can be used to dye cellulose acetate material in yellowish brown shades in the following manner:

20 grams of the dyestufi' are dissolved as the ammonium salt in. 2 litres of water, di-

luted to 30 litres, and 1 kilogram of previously wetted out cellulose acetate knit ,fabric is entered. Dyeing is commenced cold, and the dye bath raised to to C. during 4 hour and maintained hour at 80 C. The fabric is then rinsed well and dried.

E wample 3-2.4 dinitraniline is condensed with glyceryl chlorhydrin and the product partially reduced to produce 2-ami no-4-nitrodihydroxypropylaniline, which is then diazotized and coupled with p-xylidine.

The dyestufi obtained. I

W N I OH;

Q-NggNQNH; 1 Nn-om-onomomon m dyes cellulose acetate artificial silk very fast shades. 1

The dyestufi's to be applied according to the present invention are in general sufficiently soluble to admit of their being applied in aqueous solution. Protective colloids or other auxiliaries may be added to the dyebaths. In

some cases the dyestuffs, though soluble in Water do not give the full shades desired and in such cases they may be pretreated with solubilizing agents, for example those described in U. S. Patents 1,618,413 and 1,618,414 and U. S. application Serial No. 50,525 and in the British Patents Nos. 273,819 and 273,820 and/or the corresponding U. S. applications Serial Nos. 134,138 and 176,289; v1z bodies of oily or fatty characteristics, namely higher fatty acids or sulphonated or other derivatives thereof containing saltforming gr'0ups, such as sulphoricinoleicacid or other sulphonated fatty acids or salts of such acids or bodies, for instancetheir alkali or ammonium salts, used alone or in conjunction with auxiliary solvents as described in U. S. Patent No. 1,690,481 and application Serial No. 152,517 carbocyclic compounds containing in their structure one or more saltforming groupsor salts of such compounds;

sul ho-aromatic fatty acids or salts thereof,

an soluble resin soaps or sodium or other soluble salts or soaps of resin aclds.

Though in the above description monoazo dyestuffs alone have been referred to and,

further, aliphatic side chains containing hydroxy groups only have been described it is to be understood that the invention extends to the use of polyazo dyestuffs and to the use of dyestuffs or compounds containing aliphatlc side chains which, in addition to two or more hydroxy roups, may contain any other desired substitutes.

The invention further comprises the dyeing or otherwise coloring of mixed goods comprising for example, in addition to one or more of the organic substitution derivatives of cellulose, silk, wool or cellulose fibres natural or artificial such as cotton or the cellulose type of artificial silk, in solid or contrasting shades according to the afiinity of the non-ester and non-ether portion of the goods. The goods may further be dyed with other dyestuffs for'the non-ester and non-ether portion thereof either before, after or together with the dyestufi's of the present inv vention.

The term dyeing in the claims is to be understood to include printing and stencilling.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 4 1. Process for dyeing material comprising an organic substitution derivative of cellulose, comprising dyeing the material with an azo coloring compound which comprises at least one amino group substituted by an an organic substitution derivative of cellulose, comprising dyeing the material with an azo coloring compound which comprises at least one'amino group substituted by a glyceryl residue.

3. Process for dyeing material comprising an organic substitution derivative of cellulose, comprising dyeing the material with an azo coloring compound by combination on the material itself of components at least one of which comprises at least one amino group substituted by an aliphatic grouping comprising not less than two hydroxy groups.

4. Process for dyeing material com rising an organic substitution derivative 0 cellulose, comprising dyeingthe material with an azo coloring compound by combination on the material itself of components at least one of which comprises at least one amino group substituted'by a glyceryl residue.

5. Process for dyeing material comprising cellulose acetate, comprising dyeing the n"1aterial with an azo coloring compound which comprises at least one amino group substituted by an aliphatic grouping'comprising not less than two hydroxy groups.

6. Process for dyeing-material comprising cellulose acetate, comprising dyeing the material with an azo coloring compound which comprises at least one amino group substi tuted by a glyceryl residue.

7. Process for dyeing material comprising cellulose acetate, comprising dyeing the material with an azo coloring com ound by combination on the material itsel of components at least one of which comprises at least one amino group substituted by an aliphatic grouping comprising not less than two hydroxy groups.

8. Process for dyeing material comprising cellulose acetate, comprising dyeing the material with an azo coloring compound by combination on the material itself of components at leastone of which comprises atleast one amino group substituted by a glyceryl resi- 9. Material comprising an organic substi-' tution derivative of cellulose, dyed wit-h an azo coloring compound which comprises at least one amino group substituted by an aliphatic grouping comprising not less than two hydroxy groups. a

10. Material comprising cellulose actete, dyed with an azo coloring compound which comprises at least'one amino group substituted by an aliphatic groupingconiprising not less than two hydroxy groups.

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- HENRY DREYFUS aliphatic grouping comprising not less than two h droxy roups.

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